Hempstead, NY * Guard Devon Peterson (Brooklyn, N.Y./Lincoln HS) and forward Darren Townes (New York, N.Y./Manhattan Center HS/Globe Institute of Technology) signed national letters of intent with the Hofstra Men's Basketball team during the spring signing period, it was announced today by Head Coach Tom Pecora.

Another season of
college basketball in the New York City area is complete, and it’s another year
of teams from leagues other than the Big East carrying the flag. Marist, who won
the MAAC regular season crown outright for the first time in school history, got
over the disappointment of not winning their conference tournament by winning at
Oklahoma State in the MasterCard NIT. Hofstra, predicted by many as a team with
a chance to be “this year’s George Mason”, wasn’t able to make the NCAA
Tournament but they did notch their second straight postseason bid. After that,

Am I the only person watching the Drexel/Creighton game tonight that was confused about the emphasis on "bench decorum"? Each head coach, Bruiser Flint of Drexel and Dana Altman of Creighton, was T'd up in this BracketBusters game that the visiting Dragons eventually won 64-58. Altman's technical, in which he was called for being about six inches outside of the coaches box, brought back memories of Dean Smith getting a T for the same offense in the 1991 Final Four. Coach Altman said nothing to the official to warrant this call, just happened to do something that coaches throughout the nation have been doing for years. Drexel went on a run after this, and things seemed to be going well for the Dragons until Coach Flint found himself on the wrong side of the whistle when yelling at his player for a foolish reach-in foul. Jumping into the air and yelling at his guy wouldn't have been a problem (nor should it be) had an official not been right next ot Flint. Luckily for Drexel, they were able to hold on despite some horrific foul shooting (at one point they had missed five straight from the charity stripe).